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Egyptian decorative art : a course of lectures delivered at the Royal Institution /by W.M. Flinders Petrie (1920)

Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir, 1853-1942 · London : Methuen · leaf 30

An illustration from Egyptian decorative art : a course of lectures delivered at the Royal Institution /by W.M. Flinders Petrie, 1920, leaf 30
GEOMETRICAL DECORATION 15 and complex zigzag patterns are shownwhich are evidently copied from textiles,as we shall see further on in the chequerpatterns. The use of spots for filling in corners wasforeign to the Egyptian. We first find it in thegarments of the Amu, or people of northernArabia, in… … m every even along the bars and stripes of colour. The same is seen on the later dresses of the Amu in the XlXth dynasty, and also in the ^^^.^MC-^^^Z^^^^,^ dress of the Phoenicians, 7-—xviii.. Keftdress. CM. cxcl. or Keft people. It re- , A . A . A . A . /curs on the foreign vases s.-xx. vase, cm.…

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